Closed Chelsea v Aston Villa

[Spenzy2010 8]

Its not villa I'm worried about... But BENTEKE against our backline!!!!!!

[Special Juan 27,424]

Someone get this god awful negative feeling out of my head about tonight.....

Aaaarrggghhhh

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

Someone get this god awful negative feeling out of my head about tonight.....

Aaaarrggghhhh

We'll win, trust me.

[Sovieticus 743]

Bring back Benteke from 2012 December.. !!! And his offside.

[Pizy 18,368]

Hopefully we see the awful Benteke today and not the unplayable one. I want to see the one who looks like he doesn't know the offside rule like he did quite a bit last season.

These games against lower table sides always make me nervous. This one more so since we have United up next and need to go into that one on a high. I wanna see Hazard go crazy this game after a rather timid start against Hull.

[edetarod 2,155]

if i didn't know anything football and it was the first time i read anything football related

i would feel like Benteke is the greatest player of all time reading this thread

[Joelasticot 111]

It's completely irrelevant to any kind of discussion we might want to have, but I'm just so excited for this new season I thought I might share a funny thought.

In times like this, with all the new players and the new possibilities it brings in terms of lineups and such.

I have to say I miss the Carlo days when the lineup for the game was made public early.

Go Chelsea !

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

Is Okore going to play today? He didn't play against Arsenal, is he injured?

[Guy Butters 5]

Since the start of the year only Messi and Ronaldo have scored more league goals in the top European leagues so he is fairly dangerous and since February Villa have averaged about 2 points a game so they have grown up a lot since the 8-0. Going to be a good game and not an easy one to predict

[kellzfresh 7,229]

lol half our squad is kids...

I want to see some MVG, Essien and Lukaku, please.

And mata

[Jase 43,479]

Time to fire stats, lots of them, on this game...

1. Chelsea v Aston Villa: This fixture has produced 26 goals in the last 4 seasons with 19 of them scored by the Blues.

2. Chelsea have scored at least 2 goals in 9 of their last 10 Premier League matches at Stamford Bridge - the other was 1-0 win over West Brom.

3. Aston Villa have only failed to score in 2 of their last 17 Premier League matches - against Manchester City and Manchester Utd.

4. Aston Villa have only kept 1 clean sheet in their last 21 Premier League away matches - 1-0 vs Sunderland in November.

5. Aston Villa have not kept a clean sheet in last 23 Premier League matches. Their last clean sheet came back in December - 0-0 vs Stoke.

6. 2 - Three of Chelsea's last four Premier League games on a Wednesday have ended 2-2. [via OptaJoe]

7. Jose Mourinho has won 1 and drew 1 of his 2 encounters against Paul Lambert. Chelsea faced Lambert's Wycombe side in 06/07 League Cup SF.

8. Jose Mourinho has faced Aston Villa 7 times in the Premier League and won just 2 of those meetings - W2 D4 L1 (8 in all competitions - W3 D4 L1).

9. At Stamford Bridge, Jose Mourinho won 2 and drew 1 of his three Premier League games against Aston Villa (won 3 and drew 1 in all competitions).

10. 4 - Jose Mourinho has won none of his last four Premier League matches against Aston Villa (D3 L1). [via OptaJoe]

11. 16 - Christian Benteke is the leading goalscorer in the Premier League in 2013 so far (16 goals). [via OptaJoe]

12. Frank Lampard has scored 13 Premier League goals against Aston Villa, his most against any single opponent. (via BBC)

13. In the 2009/10 Premier League season, Lampard's 4-goal haul against Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge made him the 3rd highest scorer at Chelsea.

14. In the 2012/13 Premier League season, Lampard's double against Aston Villa at Villa Park saw him became Chelsea's all-time leading goalscorer.

[BOSS 372]

Lukaku to start please!

[Sidzeret 2,257]

Lukaku and Shurrle should start

[NishC300 1,865]

So what about Luna? What do u guys think of him? Had a dream debut vs Arsenal.

[Sheva. 5,373]

Schurrle-Mata-Hazard; Lukaku. That would be fine with me, a start for MVG too.

[Sidzeret 2,257]

Just thought of this line

Lukaku needs to the Belgian striker and not the other Belgian striker

[bushman 2,043]

So what about Luna? What do u guys think of him? Had a dream debut vs Arsenal.

Luna here & there.... have you done your homework yet ?

[Peppen 934]

Is Okore going to play today? He didn't play against Arsenal, is he injured?

I believe Lambart said he was available for selection, but not sure if he is going to play